Research In English Language: Principle and Technology

Motivation are only interested in one of the form of ESP mentioned above may be taught very differently from students who are learning English for fun. Students who study English because it is on the curriculum need to be handled in a different way from those who go to a language institute out of choice. Most students who make that decision-to study in their own time-do so for a mixture of the reasons mentioned above. We will be focusing on them in this book. We will also be dealing with students for whom English is part of the curriculum. We will not concentrate specifically on students of ESP although we will be mentioning them at various stages throughout the book. Why are some students successful at language learning whilst others are not? If we knew the answer to that question the job of teaching and learning a language would be easy. We don’t, of course, but we can point to a number of factors which seem to have a strong effect on a student’s success of failure.